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Annexure to No. 24.

IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.

STATEMENT OF Revenue and EXPENDITURE FOR THE QUARTER ENDING 30TH JUNE,

Government Grants :-

Imperial Treasury (1912-13)

1913.

Tropical African Colonies (1913-14)

Union of South Africa

West Indies

Australia

New Zealand

Egypt and Sudan

Eastern Colonies Newfoundland

Publications (Bulletin) Interest on deposits

Salaries :-

Tropical Africa

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presumed that the contributions for 1914-15 and 1915-16 will be paid (like those of other contributing Governments) on or about the 1st of April in each year.

Expenditure. Revenue.

8. d. £

£ 8. d. 1,000 0 0 1,050 0 0

26678

350 0 0

225 0 0

200 0 0

200 0 0

101 5 8

125 0 0

50 0 0

42 10 0

27 12 11

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No. 26.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

413 0

Imperial Bureau

236 17 2

Publications:-

Bulletin of Entomological Research

79 6

Review of Applied Entomology

64 2

Office Furniture

29 2

General Expenses

Rent

Carnegie Scholarships

Translations

Library

25469

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No. 25.

71230840

39 15 3

25 0

20 16 8

7 13 4

6 16 0

£922 9 3 £3,371 8 7

COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE

Downing Street, 25 July, 1913.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd of July,* stating that the Government of India have reported that the Governing Body of the Indian Research Fund have decided to contribute £500 a year for three years to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

2. Mr. Harcourt is gratified to learn that the Indian Government have decided to support the Bureau, and I am to request that you will convey his thanks to the Marquess of Crewe for the way in which he has interested himself in the matter.

3. The information was communicated to the Managing Committee of the Bureau at their General Meeting on the 25th instant, when Professor Maxwell Lefroy, who has been nominated to represent the Indian Government on the Com- mittee, was present.

4. Consideration of the action to be taken by the Bureau in connection with the enquiry respecting stegomyia proposed in Major James's yellow fever Report, † was referred by the Committee to a Sub-Committee, which will meet at the Colonial Office on Tuesday, 29th instant, at 3.30 p.m.; and, if Lord Crewe has no objection, Mr. Harcourt hopes that Sir Havelock Charles will attend this and any subsequent meetings of the Sub-Committee, in order that in drawing up their recommendations the Sub-Committee may have the benefit of his advice.

year,

It is

5. As regards the contribution from the Indian Government for the current I am to request that the sum of £500 may be paid direct to the Crown Agents for the Colonies for the account of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

↑ No. 68 in Miscellaneous No. 274.

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IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. MINUTES OF A MEETING OF A SPECIAL SUB-COMMITTEE appointed at THE 16TH General MeeTING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE on Tuesday, 29th July, 1913.

PRESENT:

Sir J. ROSE BRADFORD (Chairman).

Dr. BAGSHAWE.

Professor LEFROY.

Mr. MARSHALL.

Dr. SHIPLEY.

Mr. THEOBALD.

Mr. PARKINSON.

Sir HAVELOCK CHARLES attended on behalf of the India Office.

The Sub-Committee was appointed to consider what steps should be taken by the Bureau to carry out certain investigations as to Stegomyia advocated in a report* by Major S. P. James, I.M.S., on the protection of India from yellow fever in connexion with the opening of the Panama Canal. In his report Major James wrote as follows:-

"In the second place it must be recognised that, as is shown in other sections of this report, we have very little or no knowledge, not only upon the subject of a sure method of diagnosing yellow fever, but upon such subjects as the presence or absence and distribution of Stegomyia fasciata in Eastern colonial and other ports, the problem of whether the very widely distributed and abundant species, Stegomyia scutellaris, carries the disease or not, the. bionomics of those species, and many other matters of prime importance in connection with etiology and prevention; and that, should occasion arise to deal with an irruption of yellow fever in a new territory, this want of know- ledge would greatly hamper and delay efficient and enlightened action on the part of the authorities concerned.

"Therefore, my second recommendation is that the study of the subjects named, and of other subjects of which a complete knowledge is essential to a successful combat against the disease, be adequately taken up."

This recommendation, with others put forward in the report, was considered by the Advisory Committee of the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, and in replying to the letter from the India Office in which the report was enclosed the Colonial Office dealt with this particular passage in the report as follows:-

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The Committee also considered Major James's recommendation that steps should be taken to obtain information on such subjects as the presence or absence and distribution of Stegomyia fasciata in eastern colonial and other ports, the problem of whether the very widely distributed and abundant species, Stegomyia scutellaris, carries the disease or not, the bionomics of those species, &c.'; and they were unanimously of opinion that this work should be handed over to the Entomological Research Committee, which was prepared, in return for an annual contribution of £500, to do this work, and also, on the agricultural side, to give the Government of India the benefit of the organisation which has been recently established under the name of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology."

2. It was pointed out that Major James's recommendation could be conveniently divided into two parts: (1) the distribution of Stegomyia fasciata in Eastern colonial and other ports; (2) investigation of the question whether or not Stegomyia scutellaris is a carrier of yellow fever as well as Stegomyia fasciata.

No. 68 in Miscellaneous No. 274.